Global Post, the employer of freelancer James Foley, fails to pass smell test - Wayne Madsen

Global Post, the employer of freelancer James Foley, fails to pass smell test

National news media operations based in Boston are almost like musicals that run "off Broadway."

We can add Global Post to the off-Broadway journalistic hit parade. Global Post is the Boston-based website that employed freelance photo journalist James Foley in Syria, recently beheaded by his Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) guerrillas in Iraq, appears to be a subsidized operation with an agenda that matches up nicely with that of international hedge fund tycoon George Soros.
National media operations not based in New York or Washington, DC are usually subsidized by interests with agendas. One Boston-based media operation that has a clear agenda is The Christian Science Monitor, a church-owned operation, which has become increasingly neo-conservative in its coverage since it scrapped its print edition and became an exclusively web-based operation. The other Boston-based national media operation is CAMERA  - the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America -- which serves as the Israel Lobby's often rabid media watchdog.

Foley, who was kidnapped on November 22, 2012 in northern Syria, near Idlib, by Syrian guerrillas who were not members of ISIL for the simple reason that ISIL did not yet exist. Foley was originally captured by an Islamist group that took its orders from the Central Intelligence Agency-organized and trained Free Syrian Army (FSA), whose leaders led their "army" not from the battlefield but from posh Istanbul hotel suites paid for by the Turkish, Saudi, and Qatari governments.

In early 2013, ISIL took over the rebel group holding Foley and other kidnap victims. Foley, like other journalists, was offered up for ransom by ISIL, which is now said to have some 4000 members who are Europeans, Australians, North Americans, and even a few Japanese, who have no Muslim or Middle Eastern familial backgrounds. In fact, the British citizen who beheaded Foley on video is said to go by the first name of "John," which is certainly not a Muslim name.

Ransom payments for kidnap victims like Foley have turned into a big business for ISIL and other terrorist groups. France, Italy, and Spain have paid large ransom amounts for its nationals taken hostage in Syria, West Africa, and Somalia. It is stated U.S. and British policy not to pay ransoms for hostages, however, as witnessed in the Iran-contra scandal, the U.S. is known to have traded arms to Iran for the release of hostages held by Shi'a groups in Lebanon.

In the case of Foley, ISIL had been in email communication with his family and Global Post to work out a ransom deal. However, ISIL said it beheaded Foley in retaliation for U.S. air strikes against ISIL guerrillas who were advancing toward the Kurdish capital of Erbil in northern Iraq.

There are reports that ISIL has even purchased kidnapped Westerners from other groups as far afield as Kashmir, Somalia, and Yemen in order to trade them for cash. Al Qaeda's reputed leader, Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri, is said to have called for Islamist groups to seize Western hostages in return for freeing Islamists held in prisons around the world.

The focus on Global Post yields some interesting connections. Foley had previously covered other U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. Foley was always embedded with U.S. troops, as was the case in Iraq and Afghanistan, or U.S.-supported militias in Libya and Syria. During the 2011 CIA-initiated Libyan rebellion against Muammar Qaddafi's government, Foley was taken captive by Qaddafi army loyalists and held for 44 days.  Foley preferred being embedded with those fighting on the side of the United States rather than cover wars from different perspectives. Such wartime journalism would lead some believe that Foley was performing non-journalistic tasks on U.S.-created battlefields, that is, espionage.

President Obama interrupted his summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard to condemn Foley's beheading. Obama also phoned Foley's parents who live in New Hampshire. Subsequently, it was reported officially that U.S. Special Forces had attempted a rescue mission in Syria to free Foley and other American hostages but it failed. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said that normally such operations would not be revealed but that in the case of Foley an exception had been made because the information on the failed rescue operation had already been "leaked" to the press. One could ask why an administration that is intent on putting some journalists in prison for publishing leaks of classified information would make such an exception, itself involving classified special forces operations, for Foley?

There has long been a debate within the U.S. intelligence community as to whether it is proper to use intelligence agents operating abroad under journalistic cover. Past administrations, including those of Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, banned the use of journalists and missionaries by the CIA. Others, including the Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush administrations were not so adamant against the use of journalists as spies. The Obama administration's leeway given to the CIA for all sorts of operations previously prohibited or inhibited opens the door for journalists, once again, being used as agents in hot spots like Syria, Libya, and Iraq.

Which brings us back to Global Post. The media operation has not been around long. It was initiated on January 12, 2009, a week before the inauguration of Barack Obama as president, by two Boston businessmen, Charles Sennott and Philip Balboni. The new website claimed it was going to "redefine international news for the digital age." Originally charging an annual subscription of $199 a year, Global Post cut its annual rate to $30 a year, which has been WMR's unchanged annual subscription rate since 2005. However, Global Post's subscribers' base only stood at around 400. Yet, Global Post could boast of 65 worldwide correspondents, albeit, many of whom, like Foley, were freelancers. But how does an on-line media with subscribers only in the hundreds manage to finance reporters in war zones like Syria and Libya while maintaining a worldwide network of correspondents?

Global Post, with its lackluster business revenues, was able to cut syndication agreements with the Public Broadcasting System (sometimes mockingly referred to as the "Pentagon Broadcasting System"), the Sumner Redstone-owned CBS, and the Mort Zuckerman-owned New York Daily News. Oddly, just two years after its start-up, Global Post had garnered Peabody, Polk, and Edward R. Murrow awards for its "On Location" video coverage. Clearly, someone wanted to increase Global Post's street credentials through an "award washing" campaign.

Owned by Global News Enterprises, LLC and headquartered on Boston's affluent waterfront, Global Post's board of directors and management includes those who have had only a glancing encounter with actual journalism: former cable television executives, a former chairman of C-SPAN, a former member of the board of The Boston Globe, a former publisher of The Boston Globe, an assistant to the CEO of the Hearst Corporation, a public relations flack for PBS, and a board member of the Boston public television station WGBH.

But even more suspicious is the presence on the staff of Global Post of two former editors for The Cambodia Daily, a CIA-connected publication officially owned by Cambodian orphanage "aficionado" Bernard Krisher; a former senior correspondent for the CIA- and Soros-linked Radio Free Europe in Prague; a graduate of the CIA-linked Sasin Business Institute in Bangkok; a former Boston Globe Jerusalem bureau chief, a former editor for the CIA-connected Tico Times of Costa Rica, and a former editor for the hard-neocon publication The Atlantic. Global Post's team of international correspondents are steeped in neocon credentials, from The Daily Beast and Kyiv Post to The New Republic and The Daily Telegraph.

While the White House and journalists mourn the death of Foley, it is important to point out that his photo reporting seldom departed from the confines of U.S. military units or irregular rebel forces supported by the CIA. It is tragic that one of those CIA rebel forces ultimately would subject Foley to a gruesome videotaped beheading. However, as much blame for that rests with those who supported the rebellion against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, individuals like CIA director John Brennan and national security adviser Susan Rice, as with the rebel executioners themselves.

WWIII - Israeli Lobbyist Advocates False Flag Attack To Start A War With Iran

March 25-26, 2014 -- McCarthyism returning to America

The neocons always find it in their best interests to demonize those who oppose their expansionist and jingoistic policies. During the U.S. war against Iraq, those Americans who opposed military action were accused by the neocons of being Saddam Hussein supporters. Now, those Americans who oppose the ratcheting up of tensions with Russia over Crimea and Ukraine are being called Vladimir Putin "apologists" and "Russian collaborators." In some cases, certain neocon propaganda mills, like the U.S. Naval War College's National Security Affairs department, a hotbed for "neocon think," has used Twitter and other social media to question the loyalty of individuals like New York University professor Stephen F. Cohen, former Republican presidential contender Ron Paul, and others of being agents for the Kremlin.

This talk hearkens back to the "Red baiting" days of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Although today's Russia is totally capitalist with only a noisy Communist Party in opposition to the Putin government, that has not stopped neocons from resurrecting McCarthyite tactics to question those who do not want to see a further deterioration in U.S.-Russian relations and a new Cold War.

The neocons use fronts in the non-profit and media worlds to carry their dangerous defamation of Americans who understand Russia's problems with Ukraine and the danger of a Nazi- and fascist-infused regime seizing power in Ukraine. Chief among the neocon defamation water carriers are the pro-Obama sycophantic Daily Beast and its newly-revised Newsweek publication, as well as the hopelessly neocon The Atlantic, The New Republic, Fox News, Business Insider.com, The Weekly Standard, as well as the tired talking heads dispatched by the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute to clutter the airways with insane revised Cold War babble.

But it is the notion of creating new "blacklists" among some in the neocon crowd that should every decent American concerned. It is the usual method of the insensitive right wing to start with a few names on a list, people and organizations like NYU's Cohen; his wife, Katrina vanden Heuvel and The Nation magazine for which she is editor; and former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack Matlock. The neocons, who are nothing more than modern-day Nazis wearing Brooks Brothers suits, then add to their lists as the situation warrants. The Daily Beast's James Kirchik has been at the forefront of attacking Cohen. Kirchik's campaign against Cohen has prompted uglier talk, for example, articles like that in the right-wing Frontpage Magazine.com that Cohen and his wife, as well as The Nation, are "Communist sympathizers." Russia expert Dmitri Simes, the president of the Center for the National Interest, has also been labeled a Kremlin collaborator by the neocons.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, victims of Red baiting were largely targeted in "whispering campaigns" by their detractors. Today, however, with Twitter, Facebook, and other social media, the "whisperers" are out in the open with their diatribes and Orwellian "two minutes of hate" campaigns.

Today, it is The Daily Beast and Frontpage Magazine that create virtual blacklists. During McCarthy's time, it was magazines like Counterattack that played a similar list-making role. Owned by a shadowy company called American Business Consultants, Inc., Counterattack labeled individuals as Communists or "fellow travelers." The company also published a book titled "Red Channels," which provided a long list of accused Communists and sympathizers. Today, there is no longer a Counterattack or sister publications like Thunderbolt, Common Sense, and The Cross and the Flag, but we have The Daily Beast, which attacked this editor last year in a vicious campaign for disclosing the National Security Agency's agreements with various European signals intelligence agencies, to play the role of creating lists of "disloyal" Americans.
 

In Joe McCarthy's day it was Counterattack that generated lists of disloyal American "agents" of Moscow. Today, it is The Daily Beast that fulfills the same role.

During the McCarthy era, Nazi emigrés from eastern Europe, including Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Estonia, Romania, and White Russia assisted the right-wing in helping to demonize certain Americans who were opposed to a Cold War with the USSR. Today, this role as been assumed by others from eastern and central Europe. Some, like those who work for the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Liberty, are paid by the American taxpayers. Others, ike those who work for the Open Society Institute and its offshoots, are paid by the Hungarian-born billionaire hedge fund mogul George Soros.

Gates: US war on Syria like 'throwing gasoline on fire in Middle East'

Gates: US war on Syria like 'throwing gasoline on fire in Middle East'

Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says a US military strike against Syria would be like "throwing gasoline on an extremely complex fire in the Middle East."

Gates, who was speaking at a forum in Dallas on Tuesday, also hinted that Washington’s past military interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya showed that military action can lead to unintended consequences.

AL QAEDA AND AND THE DOG THAT DIDNT BARK

al Qaeda never seriously attacks jewish targets.

When al Qaeda ‘attacked’ the WTC, it made millions of dollars for the owners,

Imagine if al Qaeda performed a serious, damaging attack on a jewish target. Wouldn’t that come as a considerable surprise?

Don’t we all know that it primarily attacks Muslims? And conversely, the jews no longer bother to say a word about al Qaeda. It’s someone else’s problem, not theirs. Their enemies are Shi’ites, who are also al Qaeda’s enemies.

EMPIRE

So the empire uses its state power to gather private wealth for its investor class. And it uses its public wealth to shore up its state power and prevent other nations from self-developing.

When Michael Parenti's Against Empire was written in 1995, It was believed that U.S. rulers intervened abroad only out of self-defense or for humanitarian rescue operations or to restore order in a troubled region or overthrow tyranny, fight terrorism, and propagate democracy

But by the year 2000, everyone started talking about the United States as an empire and writing books with titles like Sorrows of Empire, Follies of Empire, Twilight of Empire, or Empire of Illusions--- all referring to the United States when they spoke of empire.

imperialism is where the dominant investor interests in one country bring to bear their economic and military power upon another nation or region in order to expropriate its land, labor, natural resources, capital, and markets

Empires are enormously profitable for the dominant economic interests of the imperial nation but enormously costly to the people of the colonized country.

Obama and the national security state for which he works are waging two and a half wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, and northern Pakistan) with military threats against Yemen, Iran, and, on a slow day, North Korea.

(The graph is misleading. When everything is added up, including all the black budget items, it easily tops 1 trillion)

JIM LOVE ON NEOCON PLAYERS IN THE IRANIAN RUNUP

clipped from: www.ipsnews.net

clutch of Iraq war hawks appear to be preparing the ground, beginning after the Labour Day holiday, Sep. 6.

November mid-term elections coming up. Obama are "soft on Iran"

"By the first quarter of 2011, we will know wrote Bush's former national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, and Israeli Brig. Gen. Michael Herzog in Washington Institute for Near Policy (WINEP), a think tank closely tied to (AIPAC)

''We cannot afford to wait wrote former Democratic Sen. Charles Robb and Air Force Gen. Charles Wald.

based on Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), neo-conservative foreign policydirector, Michael Makovsky, whose brother is a senior official at WINEP, Makovsky a consultant to Pentagon office set up to find evidence of ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein urged Obama to "augment the Fifth Fleet presence in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, deployment additional (aircraft) carrier battle group and minesweepers to the waters off Iran and initiate a 'strategic partnership' with Azerbaijan

blockading refined petroleum would effectively be an act of war. John Bolton
sanctions, not sufficient

Obama waffled wrote William Kristol and Jamie Fly who direct the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), the successor of the neo- conservative-led Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

remarks by United Arab Emirates (UAE) Amb. Yousef al-Otaiba, at The Atlantic magazine
retreat in Colorado. "We cannot live with a nuclear Iran," Otaiba saying in a Washington Times article by Eli Lake, a prominent neo-conservative journalist.

the Wall Street Journal's editorial board opined U.S. or Israel, to stop Iran.

Otaiba interviewed by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg

CROOKS AND LIARS, THE RICH GOT RICHER

Good thing Democrats control the White House, House and Senate, huh? Because we know they're working hard to correct these horrible income discrepancies!

Bueller? Anybody?

The gap between the wealthiest Americans and middle- and working-class Americans has more than tripled in the past three decades, according to a June 25 report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

New data show that the gaps in after-tax income between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the middle and poorest parts of the population in 2007 was the highest it's been in 80 years, while the share of income going to the middle one-fifth of Americans shrank to its lowest level ever.

The CBPP report attributes the widening of this gap partly to Bush Administration tax cuts, which primarily benefited the wealthy. Of the $1.7 trillion in tax cuts taxpayers received through 2008, high-income households received by far the largest -- not only in amount but also as a percentage of income -- which shifted the concentration of after-tax income toward the top of the spectrum.

The average household in the top 1 percent earned $1.3 million after taxes in 2007, up $88,800 just from the prior year, while the income of the average middle-income household hovered around $55,300. While the nation's total income has grown sharply since 1979, according to the CBPP report, the wealthiest households have claimed an increasingly large share of the pie.

Arloc Sherman, a researcher for CBPP, said the income gap is expanding not because the middle class is losing income, but because the wealthiest incomes are skyrocketing.

Income Gap Between Rich and Poor Is Highest in Decades, Data Show

he gap between the wealthiest Americans and middle- and working-class Americans has more than tripled in the past three decades, according to a June 25 report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

New data show that the gaps in after-tax income between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the middle and poorest parts of the population in 2007 was the highest it's been in 80 years, while the share of income going to the middle one-fifth of Americans shrank to its lowest level ever.

Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years

by Thom Hartmann

This weekend, House Republican leader John Boehner played out the role of Jude Wanniski on NBC's "Meet The Press."

Odds are you've never heard of Jude, but without him Reagan never would have become a "successful" president, Republicans never would have taken control of the House or Senate, Bill Clinton never would have been impeached, and neither George Bush would have been president.

S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010,

S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.

“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.” ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower

It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food.

8. It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the enforcer. The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected occupations would be eliminated.

David Ray Griffin

Questioning the official story of 9/11 is now a matter of human survival. We can not ignore the calling of history any longer. We live in a state of perpetual emergency

Professor David Ray Griffin has painstakingly excavating all the facts that are recoverable about 9/11, and then juxtaposing them with details of the official story in his article,

"Did 9/11 Justify the War in Afghanistan?"

two narratives have emerged - the first a blatant falsehood forces people to view the present and the future through the narrow lens of fear, and endless violence second begins with a clear truth about the evil that was done on 9/11, and asks of us to collectively challenge the authority of the U.S. government

trying to build peace on the ground that was laid by the hands of war is hopeless. The truth about 9/11 is so explosive that America's wars in the Middle East would totally collapse.

Opposing a war of perceptions without a firm grasp of the truth is like fighting with a pointless spear. Why oppose the war on terrorism if you are not determined to attack the basic claims, and justifications made by its extreme proponents?

peace in our time can't be done unless we separate perception from reality, propaganda from news, lies from the truth, and speak our minds accordingly

the war on terrorism is mythology, the official 9/11 story is a fairy tale, and Al Qaeda is a fictitious villain. We must control the narrative, and let the truth shine.

The "long war" is not a reaction to the 9/11 attacks, but a diabolical enterprise that was hatched by the U.S. military machine after the fall of Communism.

It is not a war against Muslim extremism, but a war against Muslim self-determination
The Islamic enemy is not a threat. They have survived because they are protected and funded by the CIA. Without covert funding of Islamic fighters by the CIA, and U.S. military support of puppet regimes, the Middle East would be free and democratic by now.

freedom and democracy can not emerge in the shadows of the "long war", in which "the battlefield is society itself," because the long war is, above all, a state of historical consciousness. It is a primitive reaction by tyrants and elites to the rising surge of freedom across the world,

Gen. John Abizaid, in December, 2004 that; "Victory will be hard to measure," "Success will instead be an incremental process.

evidence gathered by Professor David Ray Griffin, Richard Gage, AIA, Dr. Steven E. Jones, Dr. Niels Harrit, and others

The War That’s Not a War by Rep. Ron Paul -- Antiwar.com

The War That’s Not a War by Rep. Ron Paul -- Antiwar.com

In January 1991, we went to war against Saddam Hussein, our ally during the Iran-Iraq war. A border disput broke out after our green light to Hussein. we reacted, and been involved ever since. After 20 years and a couple trillion, our leaders threaten Iran.

We are at war against a tactic called terrorism, not a country. This allows our military to go any place without limits. Congress has not declared war, But Congress obediently provides all the money. Our soldiers wear a uniform; our enemies do not. They are not part of any government. They have no planes, no tanks, no ships, no missiles, and no modern technology. If it was a real war, we would have won it by now.

Our stated goal, destroy al Qaeda. Was al Qaeda in Iraq? only 100 in Afghanistan. Are there other reasons for this war that is not a war? anyone know who we are fighting and why? Nine years, and it continues to spread. We own the Iraq Government, as we do Afghanistan.

the Taliban were called the Mujahideen, our allies, with bin Laden, to oust the Soviets. What gratitude, those same people now resent our benevolent occupation.

The harder we fight a war that is not a war, the weaker we get and the stronger becomes our enemy. When an enemy without weapons can respect an army of great strength, the most powerful of all history, one should ask, who has the moral high ground?

Military failure in Afghanistan is to be our destiny. Changing generals without changing our policies perpetuates our agony and delays the inevitable. Nation building, police work, social engineering is never a job for occupiers, for soldiers trained to win wars.

victory is no longer even a stated goal. this war is against ourselves, our values, our Constitution, our financial well-being and common sense.

it’s going to end badly.

What we need are honest leaders with character and a new foreign policy.

Afghan Taliban attack airfield

9/11, Deep State Violence and the Hope of Internet Politics

The Deep State and 9/11

elements inside the state conspire with criminals to kill civilians has commonplace in the last century. Turkey extra-legal "deep state" is a combination of Gladio, intelligence officials, ultranationalist members of the Turkish underworld and renegade PKK. The deep state, financed by heroin traffic killing thousands of civilians such as November 2005 bookshop in Semdinli attributed to PKK. It turned out to be Turkey's paramilitary police intelligence service. April 23, 2008 former Interior Minister Mehmet Agar to stand trial for his dirty war during the 1990.

In my book The Road to 9/11. since World War Two an American deep state, intelligence officials with drug-trafficking underworld collaboration between the U.S. deep state and al-Qaeda whose drug-trafficking activities were played down in
9/11 Commission Report and the mainstream U.S. media. al-Qaeda’s top trainer on airplane hijackings, Ali Mohamed, was double-agent reporting to the FBI, and
maintained a connection to the CIA

Ali Mohamed organized the Embassy bombing in Kenya; and that he did so after the RCMP, who had detained him in Vancouver in the presence of another known terrorist, released Mohamed on instructions from the FBI.9

I would offer a hypothesis. American deep state is implicated with al-Qaeda in 9/11. this would explain the conspicuous involvement of the CIA and other U.S. agencies in the ensuing cover-up. Sibel Edmonds linked both al-Qaeda and American officials to the Turkish heroin trafficking that underlies the Turkish deep state. her allegations have been summarized by Daniel Ellsberg:

Al Qaeda, she's been saying to congress, according to these interviews, is financed 95% by drug money - drug traffic to which the US government shows a blind eye, has been ignoring, because it very heavily involves allies and assets of ours - such as Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan - all the 'Stans - in a drug traffic where the opium originates in Afghanistan, is processed in Turkey, and delivered to Europe where it furnishes 96% of Europe's heroin, by Albanians, either in Albania or Kosovo - Albanian Muslims in Kosovo - basically the KLA, the Kosovo Liberation Army which we backed heavily in that episode at the end of the century….Sibel says that suitcases of cash have been delivered to the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, at his home, near Chicago, from Turkish sources, knowing that a lot of that is drug money.11

2005 Sibel Edmonds aired in Vanity Fair. FBI wiretaps of the American-Turkish Council (ATC) bribing elected US officials, references to large-scale drug shipments and other crimes.

9/11: Not a Coup d’Etat, but One of a Series of American Deep Events. In 2003 Italian journalist Maurizio Blondet published his book, September 11th: A Coup d Etat. He holds the view endorsed by a number including Gore Vidal. Ed Encho spectulates that the heart of the coup is the introduction of "Continuity of Government" (COG) orders. the fruit of two decades of secret Cheney-Rumsfeld collaboration, was implemented on 9/11 it is not clear just what this implied, either then or today.

For half a century the constitution of the public state have been first evaded, then eroded. increasingly challenged and subverted, by the forces of the deep state. this erosion has been achieved through a series of important deep events in post-war American history and ignored or suppressed in the media. The assassination of John F. Kennedy is inexplicable. most accept the official surface explanations in the same comforting but irrational state of mind that believes God will reward the righteous and punish the wicked.

civil rights are flagrantly restricted. Attorney General Gonzalez, "There is no expressed grant of habeas corpus in the Constitution."

9/11, as deep event, away from constitutional normalcy into unnecessary permanent state of war. This reaching back to the second Tonkin Gulf incident. Kennedy assassination. misremembered outset of the Korean War simulated "surprise" of the Bush is analogous to the simulated "surprise" of the Truman in Korea on June 25, 1950
historian Bruce Cumings, 957 pages. war’s origins U.S. deception by high level officials as a response to manipulated events

THE SENATOR FROM BOEING AND NEOCONS

Neo-Conservatives Lead Charge Against Turkey
By Jim Lobe*

The accusation that all Muslims are in it together and none are trustworthy is exactly what we have come to expect from the imbeciles who warned that the collapsing Soviet Union was on the verge of world conquest or that Iraq was building nukes. Have these crazy elder uncles of Zion ever been right about anything?

Team B

1970s to analyze threats the Soviet Union, approved by then Director of Central Intelligence George H. W. Bush, to counter officials within the CIA. They provided the intellectual foundation for the idea of "the window of vulnerability" and of the massive arms buildup that began toward the end of the Carter administration and accelerated under President Ronald Reagan.[4]

Profile: Henry (“Scoop”) Jackson

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Henry (“Scoop”) Jackson was a participant or observer in the following events:

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1969: Young Neoconservatives Intern with Cold War Think Tank

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Albert Wohlstetter (see 1965) sends two of his young proteges, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, to work on the staff of Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson (D-WA—see Early 1970s

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Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy, a Cold War think tank co-founded by former Secretary of State Dean Acheson and former Secretary of the Navy Paul Nitze

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Early 1969: Young Academic Joins Neoconservative Think Tank

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Richard Perle, fresh out of the London School of Economics, comes to Washington

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Late 1969: Neoconservatives Escape Punishment for Leaking Classified Information

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Sullivan quits before an incensed CIA Director Stansfield Turner can fire him

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“the Madison Group”

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Early 1970s: Neoconservatives Coalesce around Conservative Democratic Senator

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publisher Irving Kristol

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react with horror to the ascendancy of the “McGovern liberals”

Press TV-On The Edge With Max Keiser-06-04-2010(Part1)

Press TV-On The Edge With Max Keiser-06-04-2010(Part2)

Press TV-On The Edge With Max Keiser-06-04-2010(Part3)

BUSH, KIRCHNER, OLIVER STONE AND WAR

Kirchner said he once discussed global economic problems with former President George W. Bush. Bush said "...the best way to revitalize the economy is war. And that the United States has grown stronger with war. All of the economic growth of the United States has been encouraged by wars." He said it very clearly.



Democrats have a much better record at starting wars:
James Polk-Mexican,
Wilson-WWI,
FDR-WWII,
Truman-Korean,
Kennedy/Johnson-Vietnam,
Carter-Afghanistan,
Clinton, Yugoslavia/Rwanda,
Obama-AFPAK.

Republicans:
McKinnley-Spanish American,
Bush I-Gulf I,
Bush II-Afghanistan/Gulf II

That's 8 to 2 in favor of the Dems. And Obama is still in office and Iran looms large and Hillary working hard on N.Korea

CARVILLE'S BRAND

James Carville has backed political candidates in Latin America identifying with Bill Clinton’s militaristic and free market approach to the region.

Carville is also a virtual kingmaker in Latin America, Mexico’s Ernesto Zedillo, Brazil’s Fernando Enrique Cardoso

Colombia, Carville has offered his consulting services to Juan Manuel Santos, a former Minister of Defense and member of the governing Social Party of National Unity or Party of the U. Santos is sullied as Minister of Defense, armed forces killed
civilians and passed off as rebels

Santos, a militarist, favored U.S. free trade agenda. Bill Clinton supported the Colombian elite to the hilt, Plan Colombia, $1.3 billion aid package which waived human rights conditions. out of office Bill met with Uribe personally.

Carville advised Honduran Manuel Zelaya but was not aware and would not have agreed with Zelaya’s post-election turn to the left

Argentina, Carville advised Peronist Daniel Scioli who is linked to Kirchner. Kirchner was a critic of neo-liberal economic. Scioli doesn’t fit

Carville also advised Domingo Cavallo. Cavallo, a supply-side economist commitment to free-market and huge profits to foreign investors. His first stint in charge of Argenine economy was 1991 to 1996. He linked the Argentine peso to the American dollar, which in the beginning eliminated inflation, encouraged foreign investment, and spurred middle-class to splurge on overseas spending. eventually made for exporters harder to sell, unemployment and deficits rose.

In his second stint, he froze bank deposits which lead to a huge devaluation and increased his country’s indebtedness and inflate commissions to banks in exchange for agreement to renegotiate bonds.

Panama, advised Ernesto Pérez Balladares, former CEO at Citibank. Strategy to sell off state industries and reduce labor laws. unions demanded an end to the privatization protests erupted, rubber bullets.

Ecuadoran President Jamil Mahuad, dollarizing currency. prompted Indians civil disobedience. In January, 2000, he was forced out.

Bolivian Gonzalo Sánchez de Losada “Goni.” In 2002 against Evo Morales. In Goni's prior term, pursuing partial privatization of state enterprises. After Goni’s win, he decides to ship gas through Chile, sparking riots. Goni crumbled, fled.

Carville's latest stint is as environmental gadfly of BP. Carville’s associates have had ties to BP. Stanley Greenberg, during Goni, BP was at the center of the gas transmission deal involving Chile.

In Colombia, energy loom large

BP is a key player in Colombia. It is thinking about commencing exploratory drilling in offshore Colombian oil blocs. Colombia needs to give BP the boot. Antanas Mockus, is no radical either but he would be the first Green Party president in the world.